The killer who fired eight shots at a man from Podgorica on Friday evening Milić Minjo Šaković he was dressed in a white shirt and had a cap of the same color on his head.
This can be seen in the footage of the surveillance cameras that the police seized after the murder of an allegedly high-ranking member of the Skaljar clan in the garden of the "Korkovado" bar in Budva.
Inspectors were yesterday trying to link his movement based on footage from other surveillance cameras, after the killer allegedly managed to elude a plainclothes policeman who happened upon the scene of the crime.
One of the eyewitnesses said that panic arose because of the shooting - the guests lay down under the tables, and people started to run away from the nearby terraces. This also facilitated the escape of the killer, who ran towards the "Mogren" hotel, and then along a narrow road towards the village of Gospoština.
Through the crowd, a plainclothes policeman ran after him, who was not on duty, but was sitting with his company in another bar.
"Vijesti" interlocutors claim that the policeman ordered the killer to stop, or he would shoot, but that he could not use his weapon because it would endanger the lives of citizens who were fleeing in panic.
Šaković was killed on Friday, around 23.30:XNUMX p.m.
According to "Vijesti" information, he had dinner in the restaurant with friends, among whom were Fiery Kazanegra i Vjekoslav Lambulić. They sat in the first row next to the square, and Šaković had his back turned to the passers-by.
Allegedly, the friends of Podgorica, who gave a statement to the police after the liquidation, told the inspectors that they saw a suspicious man who passed by them towards the Old Town.
One of them allegedly warned Šaković, but he did not attach importance to it and continued to eat dinner.
Not long after, the suspicious man appeared again, moving from the direction of the Old Town towards the table where everyone was sitting.
The thirty-five-year-old did not even react to a new warning from his friend, who, according to "Vijesti" sources, told him: "This one is suspicious, look at him."
A man with a white cap on his head quickly approached the table, took out a gun and shot Šaković in the back of the head from a distance of half a meter.
A source from the investigation told "Vijesti" that the killer fired three shots into the head of a man from Podgorica, who fell on the pavement. After that, he fired two more shots at Podgoricanin, and then three more.
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The killer tripped and left footprints
"Vijesti" was told by the Police Directorate that the executioner stumbled not far from the entrance to "Mogren", and that inspectors found footprints there. A little further on, they also found the shirt and cap he was wearing.
Members of the Budva Security Center and forensic technicians, by order of the prosecutor on duty Ana Radović, until the morning hours, they were looking for clues, searching the area and interviewing eyewitnesses and persons of security interest who happened to be in Budva on Friday evening. Until the early hours of the morning, the contact zone of the Old Town was blocked.
Prosecutor Radović, who arrived in Budva about an hour after midnight, also ordered the autopsy of the murdered Šaković's body, which was completed yesterday before noon.
After the liquidation, the Police Administration officially announced that Šaković had been killed.
"Tonight, a firearm was used in Budva, in front of the walls of the Old Town, during which one person was killed. It is M. Š. The police, in cooperation with the competent prosecutor's office, are undertaking activities to shed light on the event, the outcome of which will be informed to the public in a timely manner," the Police Directorate announced shortly after midnight.
Šaković will be buried today in Podgorica.
They warned Šaković in vain
A man from Podgorica, who for years was targeted by members of the Kavaka criminal clan, was repeatedly warned by the police that his safety was at risk, according to interlocutors from that security institution.
Allegedly, in the last few months he often stayed in Budva, and recently he was widowed Goran Đuričković took over the "Old Fisherman's Pub" restaurant.
"Saković was called several times to the Budva Security Center, where it was suggested to him that he was at risk. We have information that his friends advised him to be careful, but he entered into a daily routine. He installed a little better video surveillance at the bar he took over, but it was insufficient. The assumption is that the killer knew his daily movements," said one of the interviewees of "Vijesti".
According to "Vijesti" information, Šaković began to move a little more freely after the arrest of several groups associated with the Kavačić clan.
Kavčan's target for years
The now-deceased alleged leader of the Podgorica branch of the Skaljar clan, in the last few years was targeted several times by killers from a rival clan.
Šaković was seriously wounded on September 8, 2017 in Podgorica. The attackers, who were never found, then literally ransacked the "Auto Zeta" cafe where he was with his brother Mark was waiting for his car to be washed.
Minja Šaković's life was then saved by his brother, who pushed him to the floor and protected him with his body, and the man from Podgorica was killed in a mafia attack. Ivan Nedović, the son of the owner of the car service, who was neither guilty nor obligated to be at the table with Šaković at the time when the masked killer approached in a "BMW" and fired from the automatic.
In mid-December of the same year, shortly after he was discharged from treatment, he reported to the police that he was chasing a man in the streets of Zagorica, who allegedly came to his house on a bicycle to kill him. At that time, he provided the inspectors of the Podgorica Security Center with a video from the surveillance cameras, which shows a man, masked as a phantom, with a backpack on his back, sneaking around his home.
After that, and because of the war between the skalarians and the kavchans, which has been raging for years, Šaković, according to those in the know, was very careful until a few months ago - he rarely left the house and used an armored car.
Belivuk's team stole the "blinda"
At the end of 2020, not long after, as is suspected, a member of the Skaljar clan was killed in the Stanjević hole Damir Hodzic and his brother-in-law Adis Spahic, Šaković avoided the trap set for him by hired killers.
The "Vijesti" source said that Šaković was then left without the armored Audi he tried to sell - fake buyers stole it and instead of several tens of thousands of euros, left him a forged passport which, as is suspected, he used Ratko Zivkovic, which the police are looking for.
Živković, Belgraders Veljko Belivuk, called Trouble counts, Marko Miljkovic - Butcher i Nebojsa Jankovic, is suspected of the liquidation of Hodžić and Spahić.
At the beginning of March 2021, the police saved Šaković's life and arrested a multi-member criminal group which, allegedly, on the orders of the heads of the Kavački clan, was planning the liquidation.
According to the files of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), members of that criminal group bought an apartment opposite his house, from which they intended to kill him. They monitored Šaković from that facility Nikola Mirić i Jovan Trkulja from Obrenovac, and they were allegedly provided with logistics by the people of Podgorica Jovan Miranović, Aleksandar Veljović i Saša Stanišić. Five of them were arrested in March 2020, and at the beginning of June 2022, another member of that crime team, from Podgorica, was arrested in Belgrade. Boban Milić.
During a multi-day investigation, in March 2020, the police discovered several apartments where the suspects gathered and planned the liquidation of Šaković, but also the one where, according to sources involved in the investigation, they intended to hide after the liquidation, until it was safe time to flee the country. In that investigation, several weapons, ammunition, several cars they used, a motorcycle, encrypted telephones, and items that "prove that a sniper's aim is ready for Šaković" were seized.
That investigation was launched after the police received information that a person had entered Montenegro "who was paid to kill Šaković or two of his friends from the clan with a sniper rifle."
Killed as a juvenile
Milić Minja Šaković, as a minor, killed Miroj Baošić (2005) from Podgorica at the end of August 26 in Zagorič.
At that time, Šaković and his brother Marko, hidden in the bushes, waited for Baošić in front of his house, and then shot him. The XNUMX-year-old died half an hour later in the Clinical Center in Podgorica.
For the murder of Baošić, the juvenile Šaković was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but his sentence as a juvenile was changed to an educational measure of one to four years by the decision of the Court of Appeal. His brother Marko Šaković was then sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The motive for Baošić's murder was disagreements with Marko Šaković, with whom he had several heated confrontations.
In the confrontation between the two, on July 19, 2004, Miroje Baošić shot Marko Šaković in the head and seriously injured him.
The criminal panel of the then judge of the High Court, Goran Velimirović, sentenced Baošić to four years in prison.
And that injury was preceded by a shootout, in which Marko Šaković, then a minor, on March 25, 2003, in the center of Podgorica, wounded Baošić and a woman who was selling flowers nearby.
In 2012, Milić Šaković was also sentenced to half a year in prison for violent behavior against the Škrijelj family.
Uncle Šaković's brother, Miloš Šaković (31), was killed on March 31, 2018, in the very center of Podgorica while he was sitting in the "Forum" bar. An accidental victim, Radivoje Jovanović (42), who was sitting at the next table when the masked killer shot, also died in the attack. For that, a double murder, members of the Skaljar clan are on trial.
Acquitted of charges for attempted murder of Kavcan
Šaković was arrested at the beginning of February 2019 on suspicion that on March 27, 2016 in Kotor, together with the now deceased Igor Dedović and another head of the Skaljar clan, Jovan Vukotić, he tried to kill two members of the Kavac criminal clan - Vojin Stupar and Miloš Radonjić.
The prosecution suspected that that night Dedović, who was killed in Athens, was behind the wheel of the "BMW" in which he, Vukotić and Saković blocked the way of Stupar and Radonjić and shot at them.
After the police suspected a trio from the Skaljar clan for the attempted murder of two barmen, Vukotić wrote a letter from prison, claiming that he and his brother (Igor Vukotić) were being framed by the police.
Even then, he accused the "waste and dregs hiding behind their IDs" of embezzlement, claiming that with those accusations they are trying to fix their tarnished career and extend its shelf life.
In August 2019, experts determined that Radonjić could not hide under the dashboard of the Citroen vehicle, because he physically cannot fit in that space and would have been hit by gunshots if he had crouched there. Then they determined that even Stupar could not hide under the steering wheel.
During the investigation, the prosecution established that Šaković, Dedović and Vukotić were not in Kotor on March 27, 2016 and that they were not responsible for the attack on the residents of Kavac.
Abazović: We will not get rid of the cartel just like that
Prime Minister Dritan Abazović said last night that the Montenegrin police prevented the liquidation of Milić Minja Šaković several times.
In a guest appearance on TV Prva, he said that the murders did not happen for a long time, "but it was certain that they would happen".
"That person decided to relax, even though she lived quite isolated. Last night we had what we had," said Abazović.
He said that the state will not allow any escalation, adding that even more serious countries cannot guarantee that "these things will not happen".
"Citizens should know that we will not get rid of the cartel just like that. We have entered a hotbed of crime, and some of those criminals had support in the Police Department. These are well-known persons, some have been prosecuted, and I expect them to be."
He said that now "when there is a greater turnover of people due to the season, especially on the coast and Budva, they have to increase their vigilance".
"From Monday, police forces will be reinforced on the coast."
He also pointed out that from Monday he "expects personnel changes within the police and hopes that such events will not be repeated".
What message are we sending to tourists?
Yesterday, the Ministry of Economic Development and Tourism and the National Tourism Organization did not want to comment on how the murder in the center of the tourism capital and the shooting the night before in the elite nautical-tourist complex Porto Montenegro will affect the season, that is, what message we are sending first of all to foreign tourists.
The director of the Budva Tourist Organization, Nemanja Kuljača, said that he hopes that the security situation will be stable during the summer tourist season.
"We believe that the competent state authorities will provide conditions for the normal development of tourist activities, and that the life and safety of citizens and tourists will not be endangered," Kuljača told "Vijesta".
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